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> Labor of Love: A Build Thread, Or: honoring my fathers 914-6
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post Feb 8 2024, 01:50 PM
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QUOTE(BillJ @ Feb 6 2024, 03:00 PM) *

Got to the track and ran for a few laps before encountering some stuttering. Shut the car down and rolled in. Glad i did that it would turn out.

A lesson learned is that after any intiial break in you must retorque everything. Turns out that during breakin there were a couple studs that pulled out and one of the head stud nuts loosened up. After Peter Dawes was kind of enough to loan some of his guys for some diagnostics they found these issues. Net result was no apparent damage thanks to shutting down quickly and there was confirmed zero damage upon imspection after disassembly once i took the car back to my builder. He is finishing the case work and putting it all back together i hope by end of this month. We made a change in the head studs to a more appropriate type and oversize inserts to ensure we dont have another issue. We want it right.

Long journey. Patience rules.

In the meantime i bought a 2020 911 to manage my speed urges. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evilgrin.gif)





Nice "compensation" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)
i cant afford that type of compensation but i may have a 944 in the "werks" or works as the case maybe - anyway looking forward to seeing this /6 in person!!
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post Mar 21 2024, 09:30 PM
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Engine ready to go back in!


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post Mar 22 2024, 04:34 PM
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It is a good day today! Engine finally reunited and will be hooked up fully and running next week.


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post Mar 23 2024, 09:27 AM
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post Apr 12 2024, 05:15 PM
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Engine alive and dyno next friday.

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post May 30 2024, 10:34 AM
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Home safe finally. All issues now sorted and time to nut and bolt it, add some things like gauge pod cover, race radio, and some cosmetic stuff.


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post Jun 3 2024, 05:37 PM
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Now that I have the car back from engine build going to do some fine tuning and updates. First off is getting for primary wheels a more appropriate combo. The wheels used on some of the GTs used fuchs in the front of 15x7 or 8, but fuchs were not made in 15x9 widths yet to get more meat on the powered end. So they used minilites in the rear instead. Some of the 911s also used this setup. I wanted to take a nod to this heritage and sprung for a nice set of Al Reed wheels done in rsr-style finish in the front and a pair of minilites I bought from Steve Limbert about 2 years ago but hadn't mounted yet. Tight fight but looks like they will work without rubbing. Love the style and the historic homage. Some won't understand but if ya know, ya know.


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post Jun 4 2024, 01:38 AM
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Loving it, car looks great, glad you’re getting it sorted!!!
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post Jun 5 2024, 11:30 AM
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post Jun 5 2024, 03:18 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif) Wow! Love this car!
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post Jun 6 2024, 09:38 AM
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So on to more updates now!

As a track car I want to have the ability to communicate back to the crew and to get information from them as well. As I had mentioned before, I bought a radio set to make just that happen. First step is to plan out wiring and radio box in the car. After that will update with the external antenna install
Here is how wiring is roughly routed as of today. Any suggestions are welcome!

Steering wheel push to talk

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Over to radio box. Antenna and helmet plug (my roux helmet has a jack and speakers/mic built in) off of radio as well

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post Jun 6 2024, 11:54 PM
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Get one of these wheels, I don’t have them hooked up, but i was going to do one to turn on my datalogger…

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post Jun 7 2024, 10:50 AM
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I like your wheel for sure, but paid a small fortune for the porsche wheel so I am staying put lol. The AIM system I have logs everything automatically and starts the camera at 25mph to boot.

The only thing I am worried about is the cord at the steering wheel. How have others mounted to stay free and clear of binding?
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post Jun 17 2024, 04:34 PM
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Soooooo.... after patiently waiting and updating had an amazing father's day weekend with the car. Spent Saturday breaking in the engine and shaking out the race radios, new wheels, and other odds and ends. Engine was okay but lots of hesitation between 4100 and 4900. Kept going moderate pace and different rims. Sunday proved to see that lag spot go away as we played with jetting and kept a close eye on plugs and boroscoping the cylinders to see if everything looked OK. The car performed quite well as I gradually dropped a couple seconds off lap times every session. Ended up being fairly fast even passing a gt3. Not shabby.

Lots of compliments on how the engine sounds and how the car looked on track. Really.satisfying and spent great time with my son and my buddy flew in to help with all the technical stuff. He was awesome as always.


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post Jun 17 2024, 05:30 PM
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Bill>> def a pride of ownership car; hot build & *good graphics...*not overdone or busy. Keep the shiny side up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)
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post Jun 17 2024, 07:43 PM
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Looks good! But watch out for number 29.
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post Jun 17 2024, 08:44 PM
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Some.videos
https://youtu.be/G7oMSleY9QA?si=BgYiRRhpW4gMMB5_
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post Jun 21 2024, 12:08 PM
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Bill>> def a pride of ownership car; hot build & *good graphics...*not overdone or busy. Keep the shiny side up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

Thanks. Tried hard to not make it too busy, stay moderately in line with what was period correct, and look cool.
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post Jul 12 2024, 11:33 AM
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In preparation for suspension update and looking for rust, I had the car dry ice cleaned and rock guard coated for the entire underside and wheel wells. 54 years of road and track grime gets into every crevice. Pulled the floors down to essentially bare metal and relieved any loose coating from everywhere else. Found some rust in rear pan that will be replaced after the rest of the race season. Have every metal piece I may need ready to go. An assessment by a great shop early this year indicated after probing as much as possible that was likely limited to just floor but will see when we get in there. This car has lived in garage or trailer for at least 40 years so hopefully limited degradation.

I am very happy with the result!


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post Jul 12 2024, 11:34 AM
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Note that this wasn't the final cleanup. The headers sparkled engine and trans now cleaned as well. Local guy here in NC That has done all kinds of cars including a pristine restored 904.
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